Help for cover letter, here goes again!

Hi all and AlpheccaStars:
thank you for you comment in last session.
I revised my cover letter and here goes again.

Dear Dr. xx,

It is with great pleasure that I submit my application for PhD program in the Department of Geography at xxx. I believe my background and experience are well suited for your research interest and I would like to apply for 2014 fall admission under your supervision.

My graduate study in xxx University is supervised by Dr. xxx and I will earn the Master’s degree in December. The curriculum of my course study has covered a wide range of topics in GIS analysis. For the past two years, I worked as GIS technician and application developer in xxx, where I developed several web mapping applications. The development experiences greatly extended my programming skills and provided me valuable understanding of GIS toolset and technology.

I found my research interest in WebGIS-based spatial decision analysis after two years of practice. The ideas, that through Internet GIS decision analysis can become more accessible to public and spatial decision-making can be more democratized, always motivate me to build innovative web-based GIS tools. Therefore, my current research project for graduation thesis focuses on a WebGIS-based decision support application for community land use planning. Results of this project should discuss the WebGIS character in planning and decision-making process. An application system design and a prototype are also expected.

Being experienced with both GIS analysis and programming, I am confident that I have the capability and potential to conduct research on WebGIS-based multicriteria analysis for urban planning which you mentioned in the email. I am looking forward to talking to you about my future study.

Please also find my writing sample and resume.

Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
xxxx